Book Quote by Dustin Lance Black

If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start…

— Dustin Lance Black

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big,…

— Clint Eastwood

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his…

— Clint Eastwood

When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to…

— Jodie Foster

I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s,…

— Clint Eastwood

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn…

— David Halberstam

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

— Steve Wynn

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other.…

— Howard Zinn

“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The…

— Anonymous

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

— Steve Jobs